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Feds halt fracking off California coast, for now
The government will stop approving offshore drilling permits in California until an environmental review can be complete.
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Asian coal plants are raining mercury down on the U.S.
Mercury levels in rainfall are rising in central parts of North America, a new study shows.
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Record hot years near impossible without human-made climate change
There's just a 0.01 percent chance that recent run of global heat records could have happened due to natural climate variations, a new study shows.
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Geoengineering simulation lets us play with the future
See what temperatures could look like 50 years from now if we start reflecting sunlight.
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Leo DiCaprio wins award, pledges $15 million to the planet
He called out the "corporate greed of the coal, oil, and gas industries" in his acceptance speech for the Crystal Award.
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2015 was record-busting hot, scientists say
Last year was the hottest year ever recorded, by a long shot.
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Fossil fuel zombies and the fight against undead Big Oil
New fossil fuel projects keep emerging from the ground. How can we stop them?
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Greens bash heads over how to deal with wildfires
The U.S. Forest Service's strategy for fighting fires might be making the problem worse, some groups argue.
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Obama’s latest big climate move: Keeping more coal in the ground
The Obama administration has put a moratorium on new coal mining leases on public land, and plans to overhaul the whole coal leasing program.
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We’ve finally figured out how climate change will benefit future generations
We're saving our descendants from an ice age! There’s just one small problem with our logic.